Maternal-Newborn Nursing: The Critical Components of Nursing Care

- Delivers the critical-to-know content in two ways—in print and as an audio book.

- Meets the challenge of limited course time by efficiently organizing information in bulleted lists, flow charts, diagrams, tables, clinical pathways, and concept maps.

- Allows you to download the audio chapters to listen to the text anytime, anywhere.

- Features a biopsychosocial approach which encompasses physiology, psychological adaptation, and social and cultural influences on childbearing, and emphasizes nursing implications and care of patients and families.

- Introduces two unfolding case studies in Unit 2, one low-risk, one high-risk that are further developed in subsequent chapters through “Tying It All Together” boxes, which summarize the key elements in each chapter.

- Uses pedagogical tools to organize and highlight important concepts including….


- Unit and chapter objectives

- Key terms

- Nursing diagnoses and nursing outcomes

- Critical Component boxes

- Cultural Considerations boxes

- Medications boxes

- Concept Maps

- Evidence-Based Practice guidelines in all chapters related to nursing care

- Clinical pathways

- Professional standards of care and position statements

- Glossary